• Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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    1 month ago

    He tries to build further knowledge around it, e.g. using it to claim God exists. But it doesn’t really work, and at the end of the day you get stuck into the “I know that I exist because I think.” and nothing else.

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      1 month ago

      Oh sure, the stuff he argued after doesn’t really hold up, but I’ve always had the sense that it would have been dangerous for him to suggest that God isn’t real at the time, and he maybe wouldn’t have made such arguments had he born in modern times.